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Business dynamism

Business Dynamism

Where are establishment entry, exit, job flows, and reallocation changing, and what evidence can distinguish competitive mechanisms from co-movement?
Publish long-run business-flow paths beside sector structure while preserving rate definitions, denominators, and non-causal interpretation boundaries.
Evidence architecture4/5 active lanes
  1. Publications2editions
  2. Agenda questions6questions
  3. Issue programs0Current structural zero
  4. Public datasets4datasets
  5. Analysis routes5routes
Bar length is relative within this topicCounts retain different units
Publications
2
2 permanent series
Agenda questions
6
0 issue programs
Public datasets
4
20,753 declared rows
Source links
3
reviewed through Jul 19, 2026

Topic boundary. Entry, exit, job creation, destruction, net creation, and reallocation are distinct measures. Aggregate movement does not identify a competition cause or welfare effect.

Evidence standard
Institutional research topicBusiness Dynamism2 publications / 2 active releases / 4 evidence lanes

Research contract

Question, mandate, boundary, and evidence need

Public question

Where are establishment entry, exit, job flows, and reallocation changing, and what evidence can distinguish competitive mechanisms from co-movement?

Institutional mandate

Publish long-run business-flow paths beside sector structure while preserving rate definitions, denominators, and non-causal interpretation boundaries.

Interpretation boundary

Entry, exit, job creation, destruction, net creation, and reallocation are distinct measures. Aggregate movement does not identify a competition cause or welfare effect.

Evidence still needed

Firm-age, establishment-age, place, sector, financing, demand, technology, regulation, ownership, and merger context under stable definitions.

Primary audienceEconomic researchers, policymakers, regional analysts, and reporters

Publication chronology

How this subject entered the public record.

Every institutional release date remains on the axis, including dates with no publication assigned to this topic.
Active releases
2 / 6
Topic publications
2
Largest release
1
Release footprint by publication seriesHeight = new topic publications
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  6. 2cumulative1 new

Publication chronology, not impact. Counts describe when current corpus items entered the register. They are not output targets, quality measures, or evidence of policy effect.

Structural zero ledger

1 current coverage gap

Issue programs has no declared membership in the current topic contract. This is an editorial program state, not evidence that relevant work does not exist.
Inspect research agenda

Publication register

2 citable publications

Exact theme memberships across 2 permanent series.
State of CompetitionAR-SC0Methods and MeasuresAR-MM0Public Data NotesAR-DN0Research BriefsAR-RB1Competition InsightsAR-CI1International BriefsAR-ICP0
  1. AR-CI-2026-06Competition Insights

    Domain readout / United States

    Every national business-flow rate in the monitor was lower in 2023 than in 2022.

    Six Census BDS rates describe establishment and job flows inside one national private-sector universe; none is a concentration or market-power measure.
    Published
    Aug 12, 2026
    Sources reviewed
    Jul 19, 2026
    Evidence
    6
    Source links
    1
  2. AR-RB-2026-04Competition Research Briefs

    Research brief / United States

    Business Dynamism Across U.S. Sectors, 1978-2023

    Shows the long decline in national business entry, the range of 19 broad-sector paths, and what a guarded 17-sector structure comparison can and cannot establish.
    Published
    Jul 20, 2026
    Sources reviewed
    Jul 19, 2026
    Evidence
    2
    Source links
    2

Evidence systems

Questions, programs, datasets, and analysis routes

Every lane retains its own unit and source contract.

Research agenda

6 bounded questions
  1. Business flowsWhich sectors, firm-age groups, places, financing conditions, or policy changes account for the latest national entry-rate movement?United States business dynamics / Establishment entry rate
  2. Business flowsWhich sectors, firm-age groups, places, closures, or ownership transitions account for the latest national exit-rate movement?United States business dynamics / Establishment exit rate
  3. Business flowsWhich opening and expanding establishments, sectors, places, or firm-age groups account for the change in gross job creation?United States business dynamics / Job creation rate
  4. Business flowsWhich closing and contracting establishments, sectors, places, or firm-age groups account for the change in gross job destruction?United States business dynamics / Job destruction rate
  5. Business flowsHow much of the change in net job creation comes from gross creation versus destruction, and which sectors or firm-age groups drive it?United States business dynamics / Net job creation rate
  6. Business flowsWhich sectors, places, and firm-age groups account for the movement in excess job reallocation, and what entry or exit mechanisms merit study?United States business dynamics / Excess job reallocation rate

Issue programs

0 editorial programs
No current issue-program membershipsThe topic remains published while this editorial lane is undeclared.

Public datasets

4 reusable contracts
  1. 5,520 rows / 20 fieldsBusiness dynamismOfficial Census BDS establishment entry and exit, job creation and destruction, net job creation, and employment reallocation rates for the United States and 19 NAICS sectors from 1978 through 2023.
  2. 17 rows / 51 fieldsSector structure observatoryJoined broad-sector workspace combining 2022 Economic Census concentration distributions, strict 2017-2022 matched-industry HHI change, and 2023 Census BDS business flows with distinct vintages and non-causal guardrails.
  3. 14,427 rows / 25 fieldsAntitrust indicatorsNormalized, source-custodied observations for bounded national-context, market, industry, state, and federal merger-activity indicators, plus 15 exact entity-period relationship contracts and a guarded multidimensional cube mode that retain each series' unit and boundary.
  4. 789 rows / 28 fieldsIndustry concentration changeStrict, disclosure-aware 2017 and 2022 Economic Census NAICS matches with concentration and scale changes, exact HHI-band transitions, and broad-sector composition shares for level-2 scale queries.

Analysis routes

5 declared handoffs
  1. 01 / profileDynamism observatory46 years of Census business flows
  2. 02 / compareCompare sector dynamicsTwo-to-four-sector trajectories
  3. 03 / dataSector observatoryStructure and business flows together
  4. 04 / dataIndicator observatoryNormalized business-flow measures
  5. 05 / researchDynamism agendaSix bounded public research questions
Topic collection citation

Antitrust Radar. (2026). Business Dynamism [Research topic]. Antitrust Radar.

Open publication citations